RANCHO PENASQUITOS: Flying high

Myra Ashraf, 8, right, and Sasha Rashid, 9, watch kites flying
Sunday at Hilltop Park in Rancho Penasquitos during a spring
festival fundraiser for Developments in Literacy. The charity helps
fund education for poor children in Pakistan. The festival is
fashioned after the Basant Mela festival in India and Pakistan,
where flying kites is a spring tradition. (Photo by Bill Wechter /
Staff Photographer)